Yet another run at reduce (collect)

Brian Goetz brian.goetz at oracle.com
Wed Jan 9 06:35:31 PST 2013


> And further, I think this is a net positive win in terms of
> understandability. For example:
>
>     reduce(intoList()) => collect(intoList())
>
> The name provides a pleasant and appropriate clue that it is
> something often applicable to Collections.
>
> Try it out on other examples.

   collect(groupBy(...))
   collect(partition(...))
   collect(mappedTo / toMap))



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